Well that's an improvement. Unfortunately they already opened Pandora's Box and inspires the EU and other pro-mass-surveilance regimes to mandate it anyway.

> “We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago,” Neuenschwander wrote to Heat Initiative. “We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.”

(via nostr:npub1tsr0tzpcqxta5h0mut3jj29ekmvzcck6crrqy566p8hpet26sgss5g4v4e)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/